Amid President Trump’s ‘Made in America’ push, six U.S. states vie for Foxconn’s $10+ billion U.S. display factory

“President Donald Trump has called for firms to build more products in the United States,” Jess Macy Yu and J.R. Wu report for Reuters. “He has made several announcements since his election in November about U.S. investments by both foreign and domestic manufacturers, building on his campaign focus on preserving and creating American jobs.”

“Foxconn, the world’s largest contract electronics maker and a major Apple Inc supplier, plans to invest more than $10 billion in a display-making factory in the United States and will decide on the location of the plant next month,” Yu and Wu report. “Foxconn operates vast factories in China, where it employs a million people and makes most of Apple’s iPhones, but so far it has not invested heavily in manufacturing in the United States. ‘This time we go to America, it’s not just to build a factory, but to move our entire supply chain there,'” [Founder and Chairman of Foxconn Terry] Gou told shareholders, without providing specific details.”

“‘In the U.S., the state governors’ sincerity and confidence to attract investment… is beyond my imagination,’ Gou said,” Yu and Wu report. “According to Tai Jeng-wu, CEO of Foxconn’s Japanese unit Sharp Corp, six U.S. states were being looked at for a possible location for the display-making plant.”

MacDailyNews Take: Gou said the first investment agreement should cover at least three states, with at least three more eyed for later investments; a total of six states. He mentioned seven individual states that are in the running: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Texas.

I did have access to a lot of speed at one point in my life. Like a quarter million bennies. Interesting story if you want to hear it. I did have my moments with them. Like not sleeping for 13 days. I ran over Marshall Dillion on morning on the 101 just before hill up to Torrey Pines. Actually stopped my 55 Buick (sweet car) on the road and backed up to see his body. Of course, it was just a hallucination.

There is a turd for you to play with. True story. I can tell you about my first arrest. Story in itself.

Beyond that period of my life, I pretty much have not abused drugs. Just not in my nature.

I will give you a free clue. I do not consider drug use abuse and will only accept your probable use of alcohol if you describe it as abuse also.

Unemployment among black Americans ages 16 years and over fell to 7.5 percent in May, its lowest level since December 2000.
Black unemployment has been on the decline since February — falling from (February) 8.1, (March) 8.0, (April) 7.9, and (May) 7.5 percent, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The national unemployment rate in May was 4.3 percent, its lowest level since May 2001.

Unemployment for black Americans has historically hovered below their white counterparts. The Great Recession drove black unemployment near Great Depression-era levels, reaching 16.8 percent in March 2010. While most Americans were feeling the negative affects of the housing crisis, it was black lawmakers who were beginning to publicly blame President Obama for black America’s morass.

In August 2011, Congresswoman Maxine Waters called the black unemployment rate “unconscionable.

But they missed out on the best state in the union: Minnesota! How could they be so shortsighted to choose Michigan and Ohio over a state that’s beautiful and has wonderful people. From what I’ve heard and seen, none of those states fit that description.

Minnesota, the “Land of 10,000 Lakes,” actually had 11,842 accoding to a 1968 survey and as many as 21,871 depending on basin area and water content. Minnesota has more lakes than unique names for them [Wikipedia]. When you are fed up with some jerk and tell him to “go jump in the lake,” he becomes very confused.

Frank Zappa immortalised Minnesota (along with Kansas and Washington, D.C.) in It can’t Happen Here, a satire of middle-class liberal denial. The man’s every word dripped with irony in 1966. In 2017, we’ve discovered that it can happen here, and did.

I’m the IT guy. My job is to sit there and look at servers and stuff all day. Gets boring things are running so well.

Self taught too with one caveat. While I was in sales, I did put myself through IBM. Apple, Compaq technician courses. Went to an IBM communications class in Olympia, WA. It was great. They show these short films during training. (something I adopted when I was a trainer for Intuit in Tucson but I showed “Leningrad Cowboys Go America). Before and after the session, at breaks and at lunch. I gives the class a minute or so to settle down is what they said.
One day the projector broke before the last break showing of “The IBM Coffee Bean”. They scoured Olympia high and low to find another projector and held us over 45 minutes to show that film. I don’t know whether to be impressed or disturbed.

And yes, I was a trainer for Intuit. Working Tech Support in San Diego and they wanted to open a call center in Tucson. Moved out there, had input on the design and setup of a brand new call center for 1600 people. And get this.. got to design a training program for 1600 people that would be hired in December and had to be ready for calls by January 1st.

I designed the format and materials for the training program for Mac and Windows. I trained all of the Mac support personnel.

Had those big Panasonic projection tv’s connected to a Compaq computer with a TV card. VCR. So I would use The Leningrad Cowboys Go America movie as my settle down video. If you are familiar with the movie, you will understand why.

LOLOLOLOL….
pot meet kettle. You still haven’t said anything worthwhile. I made some claims about prison and computer business history, bot said I was delusional and a megalomaniac… I agree about the megalomania but the delusional part is actual history. Then you fall out of bot ass like a floating turd. You know that means? It means you are full of fat, hence like a turd, you float and just pop up when you least expect it. Shut up.

Want to talk political philosophy.. then do it. Want to talk computers.. then do it. Want to present your anonymous coward credentials as to why we should listen to you.. at least be somebody. I’ll tell you who I am.. where I have been and why the fuck I say what I say. It’s not because my dear leader has his shrunken cock deep in my throat. You have never said anything.

And yeah. I studied with the best. Ron Karenga. Look up who he is. US. United Slaves. I learned civics in jail in a better education system than you probably had. I studied with Panthers that studied with the Soledad Brothers. My heroes are George Washington and Eldridge Cleaver.

I also chatted with Bill Gates in his office about me selling fucking Fortran and Cobol and SoftCards. This was before he struck the lottery with IBM.

If you are going to fuck with me, come strong. Don’t sit there and snivel because your a choking on that tiny dick you chose to swallow.

Hey 2014bc…I’ve long thought that the divide was coming.. class warfare, climate change, Natural disaster or just the sheer numbers of people in an unsustainable world. Your “rationale” is bogus and only serves to stop debate. What the hell can I say about your idiotic class warfare and identity politics “accusation”. It’s bullshit and you know it.

I may as well say you are a right wing nut job waiting to fellate tRump. So I’ll go ahead and say it. You are a right wing nut job waiting to fellate tRump.

Now that we have that out of the way, tell me why tax cuts for the rich and not ‘promoting the general welfare”‘ is a good thing.

Hey now, I’m not a Trump supporter in any way shape or form. I may be Autistic, but I will never stoop low to support anyone who hates Autistics, Gays, Autistic Gays (like me) or immigrants. Quite frankly, you have rustled my jimmies. I deserve an apology.

Trump has certainly vexed people with leftist political views. He has also vexed centrists, conservatives and reactionaries.

I feel safe in saying that his magnetism resides in a supremely self-confident, business-maverick nature that blasts through all the cant swirling around his natural eminence.

He is, finally, a self-referential character in a Punch and Judy show, someone that does not need explanation or caricature, someone trying out new rules just for the hell of it. Someone like Napoleon Bonaparte, who also had small hands.

No computers. Took over our education sales in 81 and pretty much all we were selling to schools was Soroc IQ-120 terminals. I spent plenty of time in the computer center they show in War Games.

The U of W liked my service and prices so much they would consider the value of buying from us even though the major items were slightly higher. Used to get 16% margin on big stuff. 60% on those small items. ended up with a respectable 25% margin overall.

I’ve never done crack. Meth a couple of times. That is a couple. Don’t make me out to be a crack whore. I know you like those dried cat turds I drop.. they do keep you distracted though. Stray from the subject.

Botty, you need to stop. You are willingly serving yourself up as his lunch. He’s making mincemeat out of you. Like me, he seems to be quite intelligent and not susceptible to your sarcastic aggression no matter how strongly you pour it on.

Thanks for the comments Michelle. All these stories are true, including the prison ones. I actually consider them more valuable than anything I learned after 10th grade. Maybe it’s just my learning style. Not to discount the management, computer, sales training I received from various jobs.

DavGreg: C’mon. You gave such an instructive comment (tongue in cheek) about not all Lib/Progs/Dems/Repubs/T-Partiers are…and what do you do sentences later? You often claim the position of reason and then you fall into the tit for tat pit yourself.

Michigan once had a nice moderate Republican Party- George Romney was a very good Republican Governor back in the day. Gerald Ford was our Congressman when I was a kid and he was a good, honest, decent hardworking representative of the district.

The DeVos family who own AmWay are extremely radical Right Wingers and have been pouring money into Michigan’s Republican Party for decades. They have pushed extreme stuff and there is little space for moderate Republicans. One of the Family is Drumpf’s Education Secretary and another founded Blackwater. These are some cray-cray people.

Gerald Ford, by his own omission, raised JFK’s back wound on Warren Report so that it would “plausibly” align with a fictional throat exit wound to support The Great Liar’s, Arlen Specter,”Magic Bullet.” Ford, when confronted with this intentional manipulation of evidence, admitted it and said he did it for “clarity.” Gerald Ford is a piece of shit.

They will just bring more Asian looter workers in to staff it and say Americans are too dumb and more US wealth will be siphoned out in remittances as American workers are kicked to the curb again. India Incs are looting the US into the ground.

I was with The Byte Shop when this was taken.. At that time I had every issue of Omni Magazine. All of them in excellent condition, some new as some months I bought 2 copies. I had to have the picture.

“Progressives” convince themselves that everything they’re doing is for the greater good, which supersedes the rights of any individual. It’s a case of “the humanitarian with the guillotine“: we’re doing this for the overall good of humanity, so it’s OK to start killing people. Or to be really, really mean to them in the comments field.

There’s the fact that advocacy of big government is by its very nature a quest for power and control, for the ability to use force against others—a cause that naturally attracts the bitter and intolerant.

There’s the fact that those of us on the right are accustomed to encountering a lot of ideological opposition. For most of our lives, the left has controlled the high ground of the culture, such as it is: the mainstream media, Hollywood, the universities, the arts. So we’re not used to crawling into a “safe space” and hiding from ideas we disagree with, which makes it easier for us to regard ideological opposition with a degree of equanimity.

But beneath all of these factors, there is something deeper, something more elemental. Something metaphysical… It’s all about immanentizing the eschaton.

For the secular leftist, the end state is social and necessarily political. It is all about getting everybody else on board and herding them into his imagined utopia. There are so many “problematic” aspects of life that need to be reengineered, so many vast social systems that need to be overthrown and replaced. But the rest of us are all screwing it up, all the time, through our greed, our denial, our apathy, our refusal to listen to him banging on about his tired socialist ideology.

For the Christian, the ideal end state is safely in the next world and therefore is never in doubt. For the individualist, it’s in his own life, and it’s mostly under his direct control. For the leftist, however, it is all outside his control. It requires other people, a LOT of other people, and those SOBs usually refuse to cooperate. Talk about rage-inducing.

If the whole focus of your life is on getting everybody else to agree with you on every detail of your politics and adopt your plans for a perfect society, then you’re setting yourself up to be at war with most of the human race most of the time.

Which means an awful lot for the Angry Left to get angry about. — Robert Tracinski

Actually not. I’m living large, looking forward to retiring in January. Looking for a place to buy away from the big city so that when thing fall apart from your cornholer, I’ll be out of the big city.

First of all I am not a Democrat or a Liberal. I am an Independent Progressive which started in the Republican Party.

As to religion, I have visited and studied the various faiths and find they all share more than most of the zealots of any one would ever be comfortable accepting as fact. The current preoccupation with Ultra-Conservative Politics is nothing new for organized religion as it is dedicated to maintaining the status quo.

…which suggests either that the story is true, or that human brains are addled in much the same way across cultural boundaries.

Either way, nobody is really interested in their origins. People are more into the sensational parts of the story, the parts where outsiders and unbelievers get to be vilified and mutilated without consequence. The moral of the story never seems to register.

Because I have a brain. Even when I was a child. Understand that I went to a Baptist Church. My father was a deacon. They built I(literally) the church and I went dutifully every sunday. 12 kids in the family and 11 baptized. Guess who wasn’t?

…further, a more plausible analysis of your “moral compass” is an insecure malcontent scurrying from computer-to-computer, clicking fake upvotes and fake downvotes in the false hope that cheating somehow makes for “right” and doing it all on his employer’s equipment and salary…more cheating. A desperate and frustrated Alinskyite who sees his world crumbling around him as the juggernaut of MAGA destroys his lies, one-by-one-by-one.

Your referenced quote, that you note “says it all,” actually says nothing because (A) of its inaccuracy defining what type of government the United States is and (B) Mencken was an avid supporter of the Hitler regime, who certainly was an enemy of our Republic.

Like I said earlier, you have the intellectual depth of a game show host, which is the prime reason you embrace the socialist agenda.

donald tRump, game show host president and all his viewers in their silly hats and costumes groveling for crumbs. Thinking he cares about them. That magically everything will be all right as long as you can bury the memory of that Black Man That Dared Be President.

Obama’s signature achievement wiped off the face of the earth and into the dustbin of history. Obama’s legacy is simple: Failure on a grand scale that was clearly (to anyone with a brain) presaged by fake, styrofoam Greek columns and empty rhetoric spouted by an empty suit.

Wow, as a Progressive I did not know I was supposed to be so incensed. Should I be?

I didn’t vote for Obama, or Ms Clinton or Bill Clinton. All are about where Colin Powell are on the Left Right Scale.

Bruce Bartlett – friend and advisor to President Reagan -wrote a famous article in The American Conservative (Nov/Dec 2014) Obama is a Republican.

Here is the Conclusion:
“I don’t expect any conservatives to recognize the truth of Obama’s fundamental conservatism for at least a couple of decades—perhaps only after a real progressive presidency. In any case, today they are too invested in painting him as the devil incarnate in order to frighten grassroots Republicans into voting to keep Obama from confiscating all their guns, throwing them into FEMA re-education camps, and other nonsense that is believed by many Republicans. But just as they eventually came to appreciate Bill Clinton’s core conservatism, Republicans will someday see that Obama was no less conservative.”

You make an excellent point and it really needs to be understood more fully. I think it has a lot to do with the
integration of the Presidents political leanings as much as perception of the Presidents political leanings years later.